Those jobs don't often pay well until you graduate out of journeyman / apprentice, or are a business owner. They usually require some training and testing ahead of time. They also carry a higher risk of serious injury or death.
I still fear for what AI training will cost (financially and ecologically). The outputs also seem like a force multiplier that's more likely to be used for bad than good, at least without better guardrails. And it doesn't seem to make people any better, aside from a narrow view of productivity.
Hopefully Ed is wrong. Or at least there are more articulate and methodical skeptics who can keep us grounded.
>And it doesn't seem to make people any better, aside from a narrow view of productivity.
This could be said about almost any new technology. Spreadsheets, word processors, nearly any tech startup.
People who use LLMs daily generally feel their lives are better because of them. Yes, including the non-"4o cultist psychosis" types.
As for harms: thoughtful AI worriers and doomers have been trying to sound those alarms for decades, but AI skeptics generally shoot it all down because it would require accepting what "hype" and "boosters" say about likely future capabilities, or something like that.
Not to say all AI skepticism (especially concerning very short timelines) is necessarily unwarranted, but Zitron and Marcus are just professional contrarians selling a message to people who want their biases and priors affirmed.
Trump is mentioned about a million times, according to the (less redacted) docs searched by a congressman.
Much of that is probably the news articles and gossip Epstein was known to circulate as the walls were closing in. Still, their friendship goes back decades and they were neighbors both in NYC and Florida.
A lot of discords have hoop jumping for rules or explainers. Then Nitro nags almost immediately and periodically thereafter. Server ops beg for Nitro boosts/packs.
I've gotten through a few of these, but they're not trivial.
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